Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Nothing special tonight for you, only this journal entry that I have finished emptying out and rebasing all my Night Horrors, Eternal Champion and all the non Rackham stuff from my CANCON haul, bar the stuff currently being stripped. I plan to be good and get through these all by next CANCON. All the Eureka Brughel minis and dogs are off to one side of this picture awaiting a spray prime.

I am pleased to find that I have a small Skulldred sized warband of Melniboneans to enjoy. I will borrow from Phil Lewis' excellent paint jobs for these. Enjoy the shitty pic! As I say, often these are just reminders of progress.

I did paint a couple of test pieces years ago in gold armour but I don't like the colour I achieved. I was thinking of going for a dark slightly tarnished gold now. Something old and eldritch but I still need to come up with an exact colour I'm happy with. I definitely want to do one unit of elite cavalry in black armour and I have a unit of elite spearmen that I'd also like to give black armour. Bit off canon maybe but it would look cool. The other problem is trying to pick a colour scheme that doesn't leave them looking just like dark elves or high elves. It's taken me around 6 years to collect 150 infantry and 30 or more cavalry so I really should try and do something with them!